his wife Katie on 3 May 1986, Murchie moved to California and married an old friend, Marie, at the home of Murchie's friends Marzieh and Harold Gail. The Murchies settled in Santa Barbara. Around this time, Murchie reunited with his daughter Gretel and traveled with her to India. He worked on his autobiography, The Soul School, during this period, and published it in 1995. Murchie spent his last years in a group home in Orange County. In January 1990 the Toronto newspaper The Globe and Mail published a string of articles by Murchie—a couple new and eight reprints from 1978. Murchie died in 1997 in Fullerton, California. References 1907 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Bahá'ís American artists American male journalists 20th-century American journalists American Bahá'ís Converts to the Bahá'í Faith from Christianity Harvard University alumni John Burroughs Medal recipients Kent School alumni 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers